How to Build Your Own Fireplace Surround [ Hide TV Wires]

By now, around of you lot know that our room renovations are packed amongst DIYs – nosotros DIY as well as thus that nosotros don’t direct maintain to pass every bit much, lol. I endeavor my best to part all of those projects amongst you lot here, but honestly, I neglect difficult on that front! There are quite a few projects that I’ve never gotten around to sharing. Some because I was never 100% happy amongst the results (i.e. likewise ashamed to part them, lol), as well as about because life only got likewise busy! Our fireplace surroundings is i of the projects that nosotros only didn’t brand fourth dimension to share, but lately I’ve been asked a few times how nosotros were able to shroud TV wires as well as create the fireplace up, as well as thus I thought we’d finally part the plans.

This was our living room earlier nosotros renovated anything. It didn’t adjust our trend at all. One of the outset things I wanted to exercise was create a huge fireplace surroundings all the means upwards to that ceiling! This was the outset renovation that nosotros took on inwards our novel habitation as well as I’m as well as thus glad nosotros tackled it because it’s easily the around used room inwards the home.

When nosotros dreamed upwards our fireplace surroundings in that location were solely a few criteria. We wanted it to live on tiled all the means upwards to the ceiling as well as nosotros wanted all of our TV wires to live on hidden. The best means to shroud TV wires as well as electronic wires (sound bar, DVD histrion as well as speaker) was to create a bench beside the fireplace that had specific homes for each slice of equipment. The fireplace was also designed to gibe the TV, fireplace, as well as audio bar exactly. The sizes of the openings would probable modify for you lot if you lot are hoping to exercise the same, depending on the size of your electronics.

You tin run into inwards the photograph inwards a higher identify that nosotros added outlets within of the fireplace bench. One was for plugs as well as i was for HDMI cords. The best means to run into how nosotros shroud everything is to peak into the dorsum side of the fireplace framing.

We hid all of the TV as well as audio bar wires past times running ABS pipe betwixt all of the units. One from the tv set to the outlet inwards the bench, as well as i betwixt the TV as well as the audio bar. ABS is perfect for this because it has all of the connections available as well as its slow as well as fast to locomote with. The pipe makes it slow to run all your cords through without them getting stuck on anything. We’ve already had to describe out the audio bar as well as this definitely made it easily to thread all of the cords dorsum in.

When you lot create your fireplace surround, your measurements volition live on specific to your ain home, ceiling heights, as well as space, but nosotros wanted to part our ain measurements to hand you lot a goodness thought of the dimensions that nosotros used inwards edifice ours.

Plans to Build Your Own Fireplace Surround [& Hide TV Wires]:

Here’s the dorsum of the fireplace surroundings every bit well.

And the side persuasion to present you lot how deep nosotros made our fireplace surroundings to gibe everything behind the tile.

One in conclusion matter that you lot can’t run into really easily from whatsoever of the images above, is how nosotros ran about of the wires behind the bench. We truly routered a groove correct into the dorsum as well as thus that the speaker cables could become over to the outlets without beingness visible. Everything is expertly hidden, but however slow to access if you lot demand to brand whatsoever changes, add together electronics, or take electronics.

The infinite inwards the built-in bench that houses all of my firewood wasn’t necessary. In fact, originally my married adult man was going to unopen off that section, but I asked him to dice on it opened upwards because I honey the hold off of the firewood sitting in that location beside the fireplace – it takes your oculus away from the electronics as well as you lot don’t fifty-fifty honor them!

That’s everything nosotros did! Hopefully it helps you lot when it comes to your ain create plans. If you lot direct maintain whatsoever questions at all, delight experience costless to accomplish out!

If you’re curious, banking venture check out How nosotros Upholstered that Bench Seat.

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